Bad omen for GOP?

Amidst all the primaries and caucuses of the presidential nomination process, voters in suburban Chicago cast ballots in a real election March 8, picking a successor to Republican U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, who is retiring. The seat, long held by the GOP, went to a Democrat who was blessed by Barack Obama as a candidate for change. That could bode ill for the Republicans on November, says a conservative commentator.